17 November 2009
The Cage: The Student Production Resource Center was awarded $500 from the College of Communication CCS Career Program Partnership Fund in September 2009. This money has been issued so that the Cage may enact the First Time Film Festival Fund.
First Time Film Festival Fund is a small fund that will be given to ten students each semester in order to be used on film festival entry fees. Film festival entry fees can vary from $10-$100. These costs can stack up quickly and become daunting. Film festival participation is very important for film students because it helps establish an identity within the community, allows room for networking, helps create a realistic portrait of the kind of films that are being made and how the industry reacts to these films, and helps give prestige to the film students, the Department of Radio-Television-Film, and the College of Communication.
With the First Time Film Festival Fund, the Cage: Student Production Resource Center hopes to help apprehensive and preoccupied filmmakers get their work out in the world. The First Time Film Festival Fund is important because film festival participation is directly related to a filmmaker’s career exploration and development. If a filmmaker does not get his/her work seen, then there is no way he/she will ever be successful.
This award is specifically to encourage film festival participation. Ten students will receive $50 to assist with festival entry fees. Exact funds will vary from semester to semester.
More information will be available online at www.rtfcage.com this week.
Applications open Tuesday October 20
Application Deadline November 20
Awards Announced December 1